Lancia
- a city of Hispania Tarraconensis, now Castro, Flor. 4, 12; cf. Mann. Hispan. p. 358.
- —Hence, Lancĭen-ses, ium, m., the inhabitants of Lancia, Plin. 3, 3, 4, § 28.—
- II A city of the same name in Lusitania, whose inhabitants were called Lancĭenses, Plin. 4, 22, 35, § 118; cf. Mann. Hispan. p. 335.
LA´NCIA, LANCIA´TI, LANCIA´TUM. [LANCE]
The name of two towns in Lusitania, distinguished by the appellations of Oppidana and Transcudana. The first was on the frontiers of the Lusitani, near the sources of the river Munda (Mondego). It is now La Guarda. The latter lay to the east of the former, and is now Ciudad Rodrigo. It was called Transcudana, because it lay beyond the Cuda.
Asturian town on the Esla 20 km S-SE of Leén. It was on the highway from Caesaraugusta to the Septima Legio (Ant.It. 395.4), and the last stronghold of the Astures in Augustus' campaign. Captured by T. Carisius, as recorded by Florus (2.33), Dio Cassius (53.25.8), and Orosius (6.21.10). According to Ptolemy (2.6.28) it was inhabited by the Lankiatoi. Little excavation has been done, but a small bath has been found.
BIBLIOGRAPHYRE XII: 1, 620; J. Jordá & E. García Dominguez, Excavaciones en Lancia (1961); F. Jordá, Exc. Arq. en España 1 (1962).
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